Maternity services crisis: Poll shows midwives leaving NHS due to stress and burnout
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- Families are calling for a national public enquiry into maternity services in England and Wales, claiming the watchdog that's meant to regulate them isn't fit for purpose.
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Meanwhile, Channel 4 News has exclusive polling that reveals why so many midwives plan to leave a service that's already in crisis.
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A reduction of funds going to the NHS is to blame for this. The funding cuts have been going on since the Tories came to power 13 years ago. The NHS has always been the first casualty of the Tories rule in Britain. A reduced budget will affect the quality of care especially when there is a reduced number of staff members in any given shift or per unit or ward
They want it to fail. That way when American companies buy what's left of it their "friends and family's" shares in said companies skyrocket
With Sunak and others dangling tax cuts like the proverbial carrot, it's not certain that the Tories won't win the next election. Tax cuts always a sure-fire vote winner.
don't expect thing to change under Labour after they have invited the whole world and his wife into our country with the sole aim of getting them to vote Labour
The same reason why Registered Nurses are leaving.
Appropriate patient to nurse ratios must be instituted and you do not admit people unless you can meet the requirements.
I'm a British Nurse and just left the UK 2 weeks ago because the STUPID UK Immigration denied my wife's visa to live with me in London. Although patients are suffering because staffs like me left the service, the UK Government deserves it. We get paid so little despite all that we do for the public. Now, I live in Vienna, Austria and having the time of my life with my beautiful wife who is an Industrial Engineer. 😊
I believe you are a Philipino person who probably obtained British citizenship
@@monikel yes, that is correct!
@@ninitch42 so you're not a British nurse, you're a Filipino nurse.
@@apebass2215 I'm British.. And that's a fact.. Unless you are uneducated about Naturalisation? 😎
@@apebass2215😂😂
All part of the plan. US private health care will come in and politicians will get paid.
Nailed it.
They are away to Australia for better pay and working conditions. What do you expect when you have the tories privatising the nhs.
Unfortunately a lot of them will go on to get skin cancer due to ridiculously high UV radiation. Grass isn't always greener
Nothing will happen with the Tories … they just don’t care.
Don't just blame the Tories, blame the people who voted for them, which for the last 13 years is the majority of the British public. You get the NHS you deserve.
@@Kwippy they voted for the NHS they thought they were going to get more like.
Don't turn this on the electorate.
And midwifery is not included in shortage occupation😅
I love the delusion.
Agree completely cqc is a shambles to be frank. Its now not fit for purpose.
Well I’m sure this won’t exacerbate the low birth rate problem we already have /s
In the US you have the doctor on call and the nurses on shift but if you want ACTUAL care you also need a midwife AND a doula to advocate for you and ensure continuity of care. This is enormously expensive and out of reach for most women.
Completely irrelevant
Two wrongs don’t make a right though do they.
Staffing, budget and pay. It's as simple as that. like the Professor said currently the NHS is in a downward spiral, and the government and NHS leaders are using foreign workers now more than ever to plug the gaps but with the ever increasing workload and same ratios (and a frankly astounding amount of vacancies) its not enough and the downward spiral continues. Pay attracts but is also pointless if the budget doesn't increase allowing ratios to increase and workload to decrease to manageable levels. The government are aware of this, the NHS leaders are aware of this but both are in agreement that the last thing they want to do is invest more money into the service albeit for different reasons. Make no mistake the NHS is dead and something awfully inadequate for the 21st century rose from its ashes and the general public suffer for it.
Actually a lot of workers left to return to Europe because of Brexit. Overall there is a staffing shortage across the country. Public services being the most impacted. The service would be fine had it been properly funded and managed. Instead it's been cut off at the knees and systematically undemined
Be glad you aren’t in the US. You’d deal with understaffing and you’d be paying many thousands to deliver your baby.
In a world full of bullshit carefree jobs that could easily not exist and nothing would change, doing a real stressful job like that of the nurse or the doctor is a form of self sacrifice that very few are willing to endure.
What bullshit carefree job do you do then?
@@apebass2215 currently i live from professional betting and i make more than a doctor
I have had the worst possible experience at Wirral Womens and Childrens Maternity Ward. The midwives lied, were rude, intimidating, couldn't even be bothered to cover their grave errors. The maternity ward also seemed to be grossly under-funded. Either that or senior management are not handling the finance budget correctly. I did not breastfeed directly as a result of how poorly the midwives treated me, my baby and husband.
At least your baby lived! Mine was murdered by our hospital, what you are complaining about sounds like good care.
An organization is only as good as its mid-management. But successful mid-management is dependent on realistic and supportive upper management.
Easy check how Portland Hospital works and make it accessible for the community.
It’s cultural too, bad attitude in the NHS from the higher ups and lots of bullying of each other amongst staff
Hello from Sweden where it's also broken. I guess there is something common in both systems that makes them suck for parents, newborns and midwifes
Yes. Both countries giving priority to hijab mothers
Where are the "pro-life" people out harassing women to force them to have children? Why don't they care about these children and women being hurt?
"Harass women"..you reaching 🙄
By "harassing" do you mean praying silently outside a clinic?
Aaahhh thee dont neede man!😅
Resources is not the problem unchecked monsters in post.
Very true, so many women have horror stories of evil midwives, including myself.
I do wonder if it creates a turning off of empathy after UK views on painkillers for women procedures. Only offered paracetamol and ibuprofen after an emergency c section. They even forgot to give me that half the time. This level of pain management is apparently normal in this country which I didn't know until I went through it. Was told pain was normal. Could barely walk due to pain and it really affected me mentally. Could you imagine seeing that level of pain as normal. I could see how that would make those carrying out those orders callous.
tory mandarins thats mandatory tory mandarism
Because they are wimps. I work in this role and it is hectic and busy, but i manage . Its called WORK. Get a grip and grow up and deal with it. Do you want a relaxing walk in the park? I come over here from another country snd cannot belive how uk nhs workers breakdown at the hint of a bit of hard work. Grow up, and get on with it. I can do it so theres no reason these others can't .
I’m a uk midwife. I literally am on my feet for 12.5hrs, expected to do the work of 2 or more people sometimes, do not sit down, eat or drink. Sometimes I don’t get a break, making life or death decisions in such a stressed and highly pressured environment, with not enough staff or resources to help people the way I want to.
But sure… I’d love to know what job you do… must be so hard.
NHS IS NOT UP TO PAR WITH HER OECD RATINGS
The government has known for years that not enough midwives are being trained. People can only take the staffing pressures for so long.
So you didn't bother to look before you went on a anti government rant...It's not the governments place to recruit midwives it's the NHS's. That is why the NHS receives £millions for it's midwife recruitment programme and the " Government " capped the UK midwife training courses to under £10k with a guaranteed minimum salary of £34k a year. They did that in 2020.... derrrrrrrrrrrrrrr "
@@hiramabiff2017 Who funds the NHS and education? The government. Who is responsible for a £37 billion real-terms drop in NHS funding in the past decade? Who is responsible for the 2012 health care bill that prioritizes for-profit organisations in the NHS? giving even more taxpayer funding to shareholders rather than patients - The government. Who is responsible for low wages in the NHS and public sector lowering incentives in those career paths? The government. Who is responsible for the decline of beds, ambulances, hospitals and a 100,000 staff shortage in the NHS? The Government... You are politically illiterate and ignorant of the real causes...
@@hiramabiff2017PS "In the year to June 2022, 40,365 NHS nurses in England left active service - equivalent to one in nine. Across the decade for which data are available, this is a peak in absolute terms (6,100 more leavers than the previous peak five years prior) and relative to the size of the workforce, with a leaver rate of 11.5%" Over 1 in 10 nurses are leaving the NHS, many opting to work abroad where pay is considerably higher...
@@hiramabiff2017And the funding to actually provide resources to do their jobs without burning out? Also, what does that mean in real terms, accounting for inflation since labour were in power? Overall, NHS DRs a d nurses are 20% worse off financially, work with less resources and over way longer hours
@@hiramabiff2017the Kingsfund did a report directly evidencing the decline in the NHS with decreased funding by the successive Governments since 2010.
This has created a cascade of issues leading to chronic, systemic problems that a sudden injection of money recently isn’t going to immediately resolve. Those problems are just coming to a head now.
I'm one of these mum's my baby was murdered by our hospital and my midwife left. They should have all been fired. Rest in peace LinDavid you were apart of our perfect family for 41 short days. We begged for help and were ignored. He should be turning one this December. We have been abandoned by the nhs! He should still be alive!
My heart goes out to you and your sweet baby.
I’ve went back to my country to give birth as I was continuously failed by NHS during my pregnancy.
Really sorry for your loss. 😢 ❤️🩹
Same in Australia. I was a Midwife for over 20 years and left last year because I felt totally unsafe and unsupported. I felt the women were in an unsafe environment and were also unsupported
But midwife’s in Australia have less responsibility than they do in uk.
@@christinefiedor3518 it’s Midwives
Oh apologies for not checking my grammar. I’m not that much of a pedant! @@karendawson9372
I was in a similar situation. I used to be a midwife in the UK been over a year or two now since I left and it was the best decision I made. I felt extremely unsupported, was constantly put in very unsafe working conditions, overworked, underpaid and stressed out that it got to the point I was worried about going on shift and making a mistake that would affect a baby, mother and her family I didn't want that on my conscience and management didn't care no matter how much we complained. So I thought you know what I have had enough!
Left did a career change and not looked back since.
If the working conditions were better guaranteed not so many midwives would be leaving!
13 years of Tory rule. That’s how it got to this.
@@felixsmith5234or somehow it’s the conflict in Ukraine’s fault, lol
Long Hours Stress low Wages low Morale it ant rocket Science
Primark here i come👎🇬🇧
The midwives who looked after me at ARI were all absolutely angels. I would always appreciate them.
Someone went into Torbay hospital for C-section! Lost lots of blood so had to have hysterectomy! As she couldn’t move properly she had to be turned etc! Next she got clots in her legs! Came home with beautiful baby girl but mother has no legs!
That’s terrible.
I had similar experience at Luton and Dunstable Hospital , they did a cover up afterwards, I nearly died because of he negligence of the awful midwives
I am not suprised at all. It has been always an awful experience to deliver a baby in a uk hospital.They literally kick the mum and the new born baby (traumatised) out of the hospital on the same day. 😔
O had my twin girls in 2020 in Bristol Hospital! All midwives were exceptionally good and nice! Thank you Kelly for taking care of us! You are the best!
You are lucky. I worked there as a midwife, trained in Bristol too.
The very best unit every!!
But I have worked in some dire units. Utterly awful. I left one horrible unit half way through a shift! Literally just walked out.
Yp that’s why I blessed enough to hire a private midwife my previous midwife almost left me traumatized. My mother as well as other nurses left the poorly run NHS. An influx of patients has destroyed the NHS!
600 new mid wives, if they exclude all that have left in the past year. Such disingenuous use of numbers 😢
I’d pay £100 per month to get NHS up to standard.
Aaaand that’s why the Tories and Labour before them have allowed/caused the NHS to fail. You’re essentially a proponent of private health care, and you’re exactly where they want you. Mug.
need somebody to organise it
Get a decent private healthcare scheme for that amount.
@@shoelessjoe428 not happened to me yet, had few operations also. Price stayed the same.
@@ChemicalShots That’s the point genius. Ensure the nhs doesn’t work, and force the public into companies run for profit. Grow up.
The system is broken. It's been like that for a while. So yes, the onus is on the parents unfortunately.
Sad
😔Really all these failings, staff shortages, medicine not being stored safely as well as staff completely cracking under pressure to the point their bursting into tears😭All were telltale signs that things such as Lucy Letby were on their way as too many things weren't up to an acceptable standard in maternity wards.
You’ve missed Darrent valley
Only got paracetamol and ibuprofen maybe half the time I was supposed to after emergency c section. Still occasionally have nightmares about the constant agony I was in.
CQC is a joke
This is still a problem. Improvements need to continue.
My baby is 2 months old now and still not back on track for the weight he should be following a traumatic birth.
We went to a hospital that had inadequate cqc reviews in dec 2023, having been told improvements had been made.
The result being i was told to push when only 8cm dilated, pushed for hours and had the gas and air (all i had) taken away. She didnt listen when i said i couldnt feel the contractions anymore. He turned his head with all the pushing when bot ready and got stuck, i got too tired to move, we needed an emergency c-section.
Were discharged less than 24 hrs later as they needed space and i eas 'young and healthy'. He came at 37+2 wks.
He was lethargic and not feeding well - not caught by the hospital because of early discharge. As a ftm i didnt know what to expect. My area still had no antenatal classes since covid.
He lost enough weight we were in A&E at 3 days old, then was too weak and went unresponsive at 7 days old, we had an ambulance ride and 5 day hospital stay.
We've had health problems and feeding problems since with little support unless i battled for it. The support we got was good on feeding, just hard to get.
He's been an ill baby since birth and is only just gaining, feeding and being more active like he should.
All of this couldve been eased if not prevented with a better supported service and midwives who dont feel pushed to rush mothers in and out, to rush a birth is dangerous, to rush recovery and discharge even more so.
But but but a VoCaTIon
brexiteers
Enough is enough we need a general election now.
And that's gonna achieve what?
@@nyakwarObat a new government. Isn't that the point
@@melgrant7404 and will achieve what? Do you even realise that they all go through the same schooling process to achieve the same result set by those who are actually running this systems you live by?
@@melgrant7404you genuinely think a new government will change anything? The privatisation started in 1997 under Blair.
Give birth in the wood like before
Obviously you not a female.😅
@@viola1699 i ve seen it done before. Everything went well
@@franckcolomb5579yeah easy to say just try doing yourself instead next time.😅
@@viola1699i was a bystander, with 12 more villagers😂
❤🎉 Cool Hippie 🎉❤😎
Wow….
Another crisis…😂
5:10 "In a statistically insignificant poll we attempted to rig for this program just over HALF of midwives said their biggest problem the job was pay.... 87% said they were upset because their friends we leaving, which was a separate response to resources."
Here CH4 are reporting that midwives aren't up to scratch, that their inadequate training and processes are costing lives. That instead of tackling those issues it's been swept under the rug and wards given a weird consumer rating system on competency that isn't transparent nor fit for purpose. Probably purposefully so.
You're reporting this, rightly so, but then you ruin it by trying to turn this into a funding issue and rattling off union talking points. This report started out so well, exposing the actual incompetency and poor training of staff inside the NHS. Exposing the fatal negligence of processes and staff. The stuff of real, actual public interest. The stuff that genuinely needs to be made a big deal about.
But then you paste over it with utter nonsense to distract from the issues just raised in an attempt to what, appease the union? Utterly flabbergasted, you can't make this stuff up.
There's are reason Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Yankville are all looking at placing UK trained doctors, nurses and midwives on the same list as the same from India or Cuba. In desperation to fill position vacancies the UK dropped both their selection criteria and the quality of training. The criteria for previous training of immigrant doctors to register has also been lowered. Combined, these things are resulting in a fatal NHS.
You don't get Lucy Letbys anywhere near a hospital when you have a robust training suitability selection process. Sunak has taken the first step to solving the problem by bringing high school education into the 20th century (not into the 21st century yet, still lagging behind). But that's going to take a decade to see those graduates come through.
What the government really needs to do is lay the ground work by lifting selection criteria for medicine and healthcare courses back up to where it is supposed to be, and supplementing training of those already working inside the NHS to ensure everyone has the skills to successfully operate inside their roles. There need to be robust and fully transparent reporting processes put in place to gauge how that training is coming along, and lines in the sand where failure to perform adequately or score high enough in supplemental training leads to dismissal. I sympathise with workers but this is patient lives and safety we're talking about.
Wow! I completely agree with what you say regarding robust training for health care professionals.I trained in the NHS in Registered General and Registered Sick Children’s Nurse ‘old school’ and proud of it. I used to be so proud of training in the NHS but I now keep that information to myself such is current reputation.
I hate to state the bleeding obvious but under the traditional training the college of nursing was also the employer. You’ve alway had to have half a brain to be a competent RN but I never believed a degree was necessary. There were 3 students in my general class who already had undergraduate degrees in other fields . All 3 were astonished at what they had to learn and be examined and competency assessed . They all said it was far more challenging than anything they had done at uni. And that was back in the days when only the cream got into uni. Now a nursing degree is relatively easy to get into and often the entry requirements are less than they used to be under the old system.
Discipline and following policy and procedure to letter are paramount to the safety of both staff and patient and all breaches should be dealt with. It’s actually not rocket science.
When will the powers that be learn that when somethings not broke don’t try to fix it.
small % of the nhs staff get comfortable put on weight get lazy & reluctant to do what they used to do &a % dont look after themselves outside work hence burnout not saying all like this but some this adds to the problem if they dont look after themselves correcltly lifestyle they lead outside of work is hectic say 4 kids smoke drink etc cathy hudson & her cronies prime example of the above
huh?
They put on weight because of stress and I’ve never known weight to affect work ethic health maybe but the quality of work is yet to be determined by the weight of a healthcare worker.
What are you talking about?
Thin end of the wedge. Midwives are a dodgy dodgy bunch of people who know they are doing harm.
What you chatting about?
Comments like this contribute to why so many health care professionals are leaving their profession. Most try their best under highly pressured and stressful environments with 0 respect from the general population.
@@whosthathun if someone is so fragile that an anonymous troll in some TH-cam comments will cause them to leave their job then I don't think they're capable of being a health professional in the first place.
@apebass2215 ahhh yes, the anonymous troll on the Internet gets to dictate who is and isn't suitable to be a healthcare professional!